Jun-geun Park wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a list of items, and need to choose several elements from it, >> "almost random". The catch is that the elements from the beginning >> should have more chance of being selected than those at the end (how >> much more? I don't care how the "envelope" of probability looks like at >> this point - can be linear). I see that there are several functions in >> Python standard libraries for various distribution, but is there an easy >> pythonic way to make them do what I need? > > That's weird. random.randint(a,b) will be enough for most cases. Test > your system to see the distribution is uniform with something like:
The distribution is uniform. However, he wants a way to get non-uniform sampling of that list. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
